Infectious diseases kill more people worldwide than any other single cause. Infectious diseases are caused by germs. Germs are tiny living things that are found everywhere - in air, soil and water. You can get infected by touching,eating, drinking or breathing something that contains a germ. Germs can also spread ... Read More

Matthew James Roloff came into this world on October 7, 1961 in San Francisco, California. He was born with a disease called diastrophic dysplasia that caused him to grow to be only slightly over four feet tall. This illness affects cartilage and bone development in the body, while also causing ... Read More

Masters and Johnson were studying human sexual anatomy and physiology.While Kinsey researched in the 1940s, studying men and women's sexualbehavior. He reported their attitudes on topics ranging from frequencyof intercourses. Master and Johnson's observed sexual response cyclewhich still continues in society in today's world. The sexual responsehas four main phases ... Read More

The number one killer in Canada is cardiovascular disease, according to Health Canada. In fact, in the year 2009 alone there was an overall average of 68,342 individuals who died as a result of having major cardiovascular disease. (Statistics Canada, 2012). These results are astounding and suggest that more is ... Read More

The following paragraphs will describe how the result of a nursingresearch proposal adds knowledge to evidence based practice. The paperwill also define qualitative and qualitative research design. Oncedefined, there will be a discussion about which design would be used fora specific research proposal and the reason for that choice.Research design ... Read More

In 1988, Sally Kaplan and seven of her friends started the organizationFood Outreach. The only organization of its kind in the St. Louis area,Food Outreach provides nutritional support and improves the quality oflife for those living with HIVAIDS. In its 25 years, 12,000 clientshave been served and over five million ... Read More

St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital is very well known for the hope that it gives children with life threatening diseases. St. Jude is a nonprofit organization they have some of the best researchers and scientists, and have an international outreach program. St. Jude was founded by late entertainer, Danny Thomas ... Read More

Globally, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is recognized as a public health care concern (Pugsley, Keith, Garcia-Garcia, Agoda, 2009). In Chile, approximately 17.018 patients are on hemodialysis (Poblete, 2012), driven by hypertension, diabetes and vascular disease. Throughout the world due to the shortage of kidneys for transplantation many patients undergo hemodialysis ... Read More

For Methods of Research, I was instructed to read a research article entitled, Its an Uphill Battle Everyday. This article deals with the topic of HIVAIDS particularly how it impacts Black heterosexual males. The purpose of this article is to evaluate how the intersection of raceethnicity, gender, Socioeconomic Status (SES) ... Read More

There are 17 different types of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases that cause substantial illness for more than one billion people globally (WHO). They have very high effect on people who are poor, causing physical impairment and cognitive development. The physical impairment ... Read More

Only after having a member in my family who has diabetes, I have realize what diabetes can do to ones body and especially what that persons family goes through. In 2011 when my aunty was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, my whole family was devastated, but once someone is diagnosed, ... Read More

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major 11 agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that manages and advocates for health prevention and promotion behaviors of Americans with main goal of enhancing the overall health of Americans. Although CDC main concern ... Read More

The Black Plague is a type of bubonic plague that traveled throughout Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea killing millions. The Black Plague (or Black Death) is a bacterial infection that causes swelling on numerous parts of the body. Also it causes odd sores in which human flesh is eaten away. ... Read More

Infectious Diseases (STDS) STDS are an ever-increasing problem throughout the world, which threaten everyone who potentially comes in contact with them. They are able to wipe out entire nations or simply limit ones ability to function in a normal manner within a society. There are no limits to the ethnic ... Read More

PLANTS AND DISEASES IN THE WESTERN WORLD In 1215, a man named Marco Polo embarked on a journey towards Western Asia and China. His reason for going to Asia was to gain spices, silks, and other luxurious items only the Asians made. Along his journey, Polo soon realized that the ... Read More

There are over 250 recognized sex-linked diseases, affecting every organ system. Of these, 95 affect males, (Emery, 1968). Despite these many sex-linked diseases, at present prenatal diagnosis can specifically be made in fewer than 40 diseases. (Emery, 1968). These sex-linked diseases are individual rare and some are named after physicians ... Read More

Distributed at The American Medical Association Conference on Sexually Transmitted Diseases Risk Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment About STDs "STDs" (sexually transmitted diseases) is a broad term that refers to as many as 20 different sicknesses, all of them transmitted by sex - usually through the exchange of body fluids such ... Read More

There are now more than twenty disorders recognized as being transmitted primarily by sexual means. The more familiar STD's are AIDS, gonorhea, syphilis, chlamydia-related infections, genital herpes, candidiasis, nonspecific vaginitis, trichomoniasis, pediculosis, scabies, and urinary tract infections. GONORRHEA One of the most frequently encountered communicable diseases in the U.S. It ... Read More

Section 1. Introduction. More than a third of men and women in the United Kingdom die from coronary heart disease or stroke. One in twelve men die from coronary heart disease before the age of 65. Yet this epidemic of premature death is reversible, indeed the death rate is already ... Read More

PELLAGRA Pellagra was a disease that affected hundreds of thousands of residents within the southeastern region of the United States from the time of its first known reports in the early 1900's to the end of World War II, in 1945. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, from New York, was given credit ... Read More

A RESEARCH PAPER No one was exempt as it swept in off the shores and into the countryside laying its burden of death and pestilence. Europe had prospered readily for about 300 years prior to the beginning of the 1300s, but a series of natural disasters occurred. Poor harvests and ... Read More

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) is increasing in the United States. Most STDs are treatable, but there is no cure at present for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). AIDS leads to a fatal outcome in most cases. Although HIV can be spread through use ... Read More

The Proliferation of Disease In the 19th century you could say that conditions for wide spread epidemics were ideal. People lived in hovels barely fit for habitation and probably better suited to livestock than human beings. More often than not people were jammed like animals into these dwellings, sometimes more ... Read More

A disease is 'a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors illness sickness ailment'. Six examples of diseases are -Cancer -Meningococcal Disease -Hepatitis B -Hepatitis ... Read More

Diabetes the third most fatal disease in the United States, killing more than one three hundred and fifty thousand people per year in the United States alone but millions throughout the world. Over thirteen million Americans are being treated for diabetes, along with another five million people with undetected diabetes. ... Read More

In America in the 1950s, summertime was a time of fear and anxiety for many parents this was the season when children by the thousands became infected with the crippling disease poliomyelitis, or polio. This burden of fear was lifted forever when it was announced that Dr. Jonas Salk had ... Read More

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases A Teen's Worst Nightmare Sexually transmitted diseases are infectious diseases that can be spread by sexual contact. Some can also be transmitted by non-sexual ways, but these make up a minority of the total number of cases. An estimated ten to twelve million Americans ... Read More

Running Head Veterinarians Veterinarian Report Lee Moton Booker T Washington Magnet High School, Montgomery-Al Veterinarians A Veterinarian is a doctor who diagnoses, treats, and control diseases and injuries of animals (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2000-2001). There are two types of veterinarians, large and small practitioners. The large practitioners deal with non-domestic ... Read More

Our Radiant Planet- Depletion of the Ozone Layer Ozone is a relatively unstable form of molecular oxygen containing three oxygen atoms produced when upper-atmosphere oxygen molecules are split by ultra violet light. Stratospheric ozone is found in a broad band, extending generally from 15 to 35km above the earth. Although ... Read More

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and HIV affect more than roughly thirty million people worldwide. It is now generally accepted that HIV is a descendant of simian (monkey) immunodeficiency virus (SIV). Certain simian immunodeficiency viruses bear a very close resemblance to HIV-1 and HIV-2, the two types of HIV. But ... Read More